Business Model

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When starting your business, make sure that your idea has legs. If not, you’ll quickly be forgotten. The business world has its fair share of one-hit wonders.

A business model explains which customer need or want your start-up chooses to fulfil; why your solution works better than competing ones and what your potential customers will be willing to pay for such a solution.

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How to create a business model to compete with new technologies.

Defining your business model is step one to getting your SME positioned for success.

Get ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new, innovative models of value creation.

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Think you have a hot business idea? Put it to the test.

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To illustrate an application of the process of defining and refining a business model, we explore a real-life case study of business model innovation.

Think you have a hot business idea? Put it to the test.